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16 September, 2010

Ok, hands up who remembers They Might Be Giants? Me! Me! And I've discovered they have a whole lot of very cool songs for kids over on You Tube - Hazel's class is often watching them in the mornings before the bell rings. This is my favourite, and Hazel's, because she wants to be one, but they also have a cool one about Mesopotamians. Though that's a bit above Hazel's head at the moment! Now if only they'd do one for Archaeologists... Actually I must admit I do sometimes sing the chorus and put in archaeologist instead.

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"the sun is a mass of incandescent gas, a gigantic nuclear furnace..." love that one! And yes, the kid songs are outrageously fun. Watch for concerts--we saw them at Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago and it was a completely kid-friendly, adult-crazy show!!

Love TMBG:) Speaking of anthropologically awesome songs (like Mesopotamians), I hope you have seen The Real Pliocene Hominin ? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8K-wa0046cQ (PS ive been following your site for a while now: anthro + crafting = me who wants to be in NZ! And that totoro bag? You rock!:)

Oooh you HAVE to check out all of their kids albums! It's not all on YouTube. They have ABCs, 123s, and Science. Great, great stuff! They do family concerts now too, so watch for them to come to your area, they are a blast!

Ack - they are awesome!!! How did I not know? (coming from someone who still regularly breaks out in Istanbul is Constantinople...!) So the kids and I just spent an hour checking out all the TMBG videos on youtube...there's definitely a new fanclub here. Thanks for the links! (In the past hour Imogen has officially changed her career aspirations from *magic flying unicorn* to paleontologist - apparently the combination of dinosaur bones and skateboarding is just too cool to pass up! Now if only a band would think *lawyer* was sexy and make a rock song about that, to ease D's mind! lol)

That Real Pliocene Hominin is brilliant! In fact if I've got time I'mshowing it in class on Wednesday :) That'll show the kids that I'm down andhip. And it's nice and (mostly) up-to-date too, bonus. Thanks for theTotoro bag compliment, I'm still pretty pleased with it myself!

Oh good, I'm not the only one who didn't know about them! :) Perhaps Imogencould aspire to be a magic flying unicorn palaeontologist, it seems a shameto loose the unicorn bit. Hazel spends a fair amount of time prancing aroundbeing a unicorn, sometimes flying, sometimes not. I'm going to miss it whenshe gets too grown up!